vegetal

/bexeˈtal/ · B2 · adj

plant

🥬🌱 vegetal = vegetable + -al (relating to plants); Latin vegetare, to grow

Vegetal looks like English vegetable and shares its root, Latin vegetare, meaning to enliven or grow. The suffix -al means relating to. So vegetal means relating to plants, as in reino vegetal, the plant kingdom.

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